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Escape Pod. Episode 847. House Proud. By Lawrence Raphael Brothers.

Hello, and welcome to Escape Pod. I'm your host and co-editor, Mer Lafferty. This week,

we bring you House Proud by Lawrence Raphael Brothers. Lawrence is a writer and technologist.

He has worked in R&D at such firms as Bell Communications Research and Google. His areas

of expertise include internet and cloud-based applications, artificial intelligence, telecom

applications, and online games. He has published many science fiction and fantasy stories.

Our narrators this week are our own producers, Summer Brooks and Adam Proct. Summer Brooks

is a story addict who watches way too much television. She enjoys putting her encyclopedic

knowledge to the test during discussions and interviews about sci-fi, horror, and comics,

and does so as the long-time host and producer of Slice of Sci-fi and as co-host of the

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